From: | Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var | ||
Date: | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:37:40 | ||
Message-Id: | m2qjgu$at0$1@ger.gmane.org | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var by Mike Gilbert |
1 | Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
2 | > |
3 | > I'm not sure if the portage team has decided what to do long-term. |
4 | |
5 | The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
6 | completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough: |
7 | With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository, |
8 | you are not even forced to have a *single* major repository |
9 | (AFAIK, this is called mix-ins in some other package managers), |
10 | etc. |
Subject | Author |
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[gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: Moving the portage tree to /var | Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> |